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King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 325, 4 January 1911, Page 6

Lord Morley's great task in India having been completed, he will be succeeded at the India Office by the Earl of Crewe, the Liberal leader in the House of Lords. Probably no peer is lu-day more heartily welcomed upon any public platform. Lord Crewe, who is in his fifty-third year, was a son of Richard Monckton Milnes, who subsequently became Lord Houghton. Lord Crewe was not the direct heir to his present title; a rich, generous, and unmarried uncle left it him together with a huge fortune. Lord Crewe is extremely versatile and excels in sport of ail kinds. He is also a great hook lover, his library containing over ;!0, not) volumes, being one of the finest in England. The Earl is a great racing man and a member of the Jockey Club; a model landlord, and a keen agriculturist. Garden cities are among his hobbies. An amusing anecdote is told of him in connection with a charitable entertainment, at which !u leaned against a eorridiT tfnli and went fast ashep with his hat in his hand, i-onie young fellows started dropping half-crowns and cappers into the hat from a balcony, and the chink of the coins -.0k3 him up, when he promptly pointed all the' silver and pelted his impromptu benefactors will, the pence.